Discordant and chameleon sequences: Their distribution and implications for amyloidogenicity

Protein Science

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 567-579

  Gendoo, Deena M A ^a,b   Harrison, Paul M ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

sheet; Amyloid fibril; Amyloidosis; Bioinformatics; Chameleon sequences; Conformational variability; Discordance; Prion; Structural plasticity; Structurally ambivalent peptides

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOIDOGENIC PROTEINS; ANIMALS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CHAMAELEONIDAE;

EID: 79952159095     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.590     Document Type: Article

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